Tag Archives: David Scarpa

Gladiator II review — We are entertained, but this movie doesn’t echo in eternity

November 22, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa and Peter Craig | 148 min | ▲▲▲△△ I was never a part of Gladiator's rabid cult. I recognized it as an unexpectedly popular throwback entertainment, swords and sandals at a time when neither were cool, but to anoint it with five Oscars in 2000, including… Read More

Napoleon review — It’s a long wait for Waterloo

November 26, 2023 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa | 158 min | ▲▲△△△ Sir Ridley Scott, now in his 80s, continues to show he's one of Hollywood's great visual stylists. What he isn't is a writer, so while the director of Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator has made a number of… Read More

All The Money In The World review — Plummer impresses, the film doesn’t

January 3, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Ridley Scott | Written by David Scarpa, based on a book by John Pearson | 132 min My LENS ME YOUR EARS podcast co-host Stephen Cooke and I discovered in a recent look at the films of Ridley Scott that the man's feature-film work going back to The Duellists (1977) is a catalogue… Read More